Top GOP Benghazi lawyer: ‘Nothing’ could have prevented American deaths
The chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, before leaving the Republican-led committee earlier this year, said he did not believe the Pentagon could have done more to save American lives during the night of the attack, according to copies of his comments included in a Sunday letter from Democrats to Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.).
Army Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman told former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in a transcribed interview by the panel in January that “nothing could have affected what occurred in Benghazi” to prevent the deaths of four Americans in the immediate response to the attacks, the letter released by Democrats states.
.. Gowdy has responded that the Pentagon has sought to block him from talking to people on the ground the night of the attacks.
.. Gowdy has responded that the Pentagon has sought to block him from talking to people on the ground the night of the attacks.